Christian herald and signs of our times . h of the Equator. Mr. Froude has longbeen of the opinion that the English Govern-ment does not value the Colonies as it ought,and that it is pursuing toward them a policywhich will alienate them as the United Stateswere alienated more than a century ago. Hetook the journey to see for himself the state offeeling in the Colonies, to find out by actual ob-servation what the Colonies needed, and howthey might be more firmly attached to themother country. This volume is a recoid ofhis journey, and contains the inferences he drewfrom what he saw. Mr. Froude
Christian herald and signs of our times . h of the Equator. Mr. Froude has longbeen of the opinion that the English Govern-ment does not value the Colonies as it ought,and that it is pursuing toward them a policywhich will alienate them as the United Stateswere alienated more than a century ago. Hetook the journey to see for himself the state offeeling in the Colonies, to find out by actual ob-servation what the Colonies needed, and howthey might be more firmly attached to themother country. This volume is a recoid ofhis journey, and contains the inferences he drewfrom what he saw. Mr. Froude does not hesi-tate to tell his countrymen some home truthsabout the folly of their Government, and ourCanadian friends will be pleased to see howclearly he has seen the mistakes England is mak-ing in neglecting the interests of a noble andloyal people ; for England is as negligent ofCanadian interests as she is of Oceana, and a re-form affecting Oceana would surely help Canadatoo, 140 THE CHRISTIAN HERALD AND SIGNS OF OUR TIMES. March Gen. Gordon Reading to the Incurables in Gravesend Hospital. Among the facts of general interest in the vol-ume, of which there are many, Mr. Froude tellsus of a bishop who lately arrived in one ofthese colonies, that he was requested during adrought to issue a circular prayer for rain. Hereplied that an average sufficiency of rain fellevery year, and that he declined to petition Godto work a miracle until the colonists had doneall that lay in themselves to preserve it by con-structing reservoirs. In the course of his journey Mr. Froude hadfor a time a missionary as a travelling compan-ion. The missionary was not a great man intel-lectually, but Mr. Froude compares him, muchto his advantage, with another passenger on thesame ship who had become very rich by trade,and whose theory of existence evidently wasthat in such a world as this the only wisdom wasto get as much enjoyment out of it as could pos-sibly be had. All else was illusion. He was
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